Dalit woman ‘assaulted’ in Vadodara; 3 booked after MLA Jignesh Mevani threatens protest
The Congress leader threatened to protest after the Dalit woman said police had refused to register an FIR.
By: Express News Service
Vadodara | June 12, 2023 16:11 IST
Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani had announced that he would sit in protest at the Police Bhavan in Vadodara on Monday, but later called off the protest. (File photo)
The Jawaharnagar police station in Gujarat’s Vadodara city booked three people on Monday after they allegedly slapped a Dalit woman and threatened to evict her from her home in Ranoli village.
According to Jaya Parmar, Jay Patel alias Donny, Jana Patel and a third unidentified person had threatened to evict her from her house following an altercation with her son, Mitesh.
The complainant states in her FIR, “On the night of June 9, Donny arrived at our residence in Ranoli in search of my son Mitesh. He slapped me and hurled casteist abuses at me and threatened to abduct me if my son was not found… He threatened that we should vacate the house or he would throw us out himself.”
According to the complainant, Donny and the two other accused had an altercation with Mitesh earlier at a pan shop of a Kathiyawadi highway hotel in the vicinity, where the three allegedly assaulted him. On Sunday, the complainant met Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani during a Congress outreach programme in Vadodara and claimed that the police had refused to register an FIR on her complaint. Mevani had announced that he would sit in protest at the Police Bhavan in Vadodara on Monday.
Mevani called off his protest after the accused were booked under Indian Penal Code sections for voluntarily causing hurt (323), uttering obscene words in a public place [294(b)] and crime committed in the presence of abettor (114) along with relevant sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
